University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Bridging Two Dynasties
The 1947 New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American...
Defying Expectations
Phil Rawlins and the Orlando City Soccer Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
As an expansion Major League Soccer team, the Orlando City Soccer Club marked the return of professional soccer to Florida for the first time since 2001, selling out the sixty-thousand-seat Citrus Bowl for its home opener and going on to have the second‑highest home attendance for the 2015 and...
by Richard A. Levins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He became one of the country’s premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty...
Romance with Voluptuousness
Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black women’s body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States.
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American Antiquities
Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward or simple as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation, to a semi-profession, to a specialized, self-conscious profession was anything...
Postcolonial Hauntologies
African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial...
Public Privates
Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Public Privates focuses on public and private acts and spaces in media to explore the formation of geographies. Situated at the intersections of cultural geography, feminist geography, and media studies, Marcia R. England’s study argues that media both reinforce and subvert traditional notions of...
Cogewea, The Half Blood
A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the...
Of Fathers and Fire
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
When Richie Thorpe and his ragtag religious band of ex-thieves arrive in the High Plains town of Suborney, Colorado, Tommy Sandor is captivated by the group. It’s the summer of 1980 in the dusty, junkyard town, and the seventeen-year-old is wrestling with the forces shaping America and himself:...
by John Keeble
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of tales returns readers to the American Northwest so deftly observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble’s previous works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can...
by Erin Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers...
The Virgin of Prince Street
Expeditions into Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
With organized religion becoming increasingly divisive and politicized and Americans abandoning their pews in droves, it’s easy to question aspects of traditional spirituality and devotion. In response to this shifting landscape, Sonja Livingston undertakes a variety of expeditions—from a mobile...
The Other Exchange
Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift...
White Gold
Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern...